Hey. I recently got the Flook CD "Haven", and it rocks. I love the music, and I've already stolen several tunes off it-Road to Errogie, Souter Creek, etc. However, for some reason, I've been unable to learn Peter Street or the Drunken Acrobat. I know that they play them in A and E respectively, but I still can't figure them out. I've looked on here, but they aren't on the site-although there is a reel in A called Peter Street. It's a different tune, just to make things confusing.
So, if anyone has learned the tunes, I would very much appreciate it if you could write down the ABC, or, better yet, submit the tunes to the site. It would be extremely helpful, because I would gladly join a religion based around these tunes. They're that awesome.
I am a big fan of these tunes as well. Faves include Ramidh Ceili, Mouse in the Kitchen, The Beehive and the entire Ballybrolly Jigs Set (not all off Haven I know but why stop there!!). I think the key with these tunes (and a lot of the newer compositions being recorded by similar bands) is to use them sparsely and carefully within a session context. Although they are great, bombarding a session with set after set of new tunes is probably not going to make you many friends .
I love the tunes as well - who cares if you can play them in a session or not, they're just fun to learn - but what is it with Brian Finnegan and playing in keys that are completely impossible (on fiddle, anyway)? I mean, come on - the Asturian Way is a brilliant tune, but he plays it in friggin' F sharp mixolydian, just so that I'll take ten times longer that I should to learn it.
I imagine that you would tune your fiddle differently, learn it there, and then play it in a more normal key... similar to capoing a guitar to play in Bb but just playing in G. That's what I did for Road to Errogie, anyway, and it seemed to work.
And I make a point of learning one bog-standard tune for every crazy new one I learn. There's no need to lecture me. I've heard it.
Um I sssssooooooo wasn't lecturing you Zazzaliss. Sorry if that's how it came accross. I'm very much a player from the new school end of the spectrum . I was merely speaking from my experience. I'm not a tune nazi by any stretch of the imagination and apologise again if i came accross as trying to lecture you or curb your enthusiasm.
p.s. I think the recent s'**t fights carried out on this board have made everyone hyper defensive maybe??
I agree with late in the evening- I just read the big one and it made me feel really weird..... Glad I wasn't involved actually.
Anyhoo, back tae this; Brian plays a lot of whistle Joe C S S so things come out in strange keys, especially on the A and F whistles. He also has some Indian flutes that come in pretty odd keys.
Flook Tunes
Flook Tunes
Hey. I recently got the Flook CD "Haven", and it rocks. I love the music, and I've already stolen several tunes off it-Road to Errogie, Souter Creek, etc. However, for some reason, I've been unable to learn Peter Street or the Drunken Acrobat. I know that they play them in A and E respectively, but I still can't figure them out. I've looked on here, but they aren't on the site-although there is a reel in A called Peter Street. It's a different tune, just to make things confusing.
So, if anyone has learned the tunes, I would very much appreciate it if you could write down the ABC, or, better yet, submit the tunes to the site. It would be extremely helpful, because I would gladly join a religion based around these tunes. They're that awesome.
# Posted on April 30th 2007 by Zazzaliss
Re: Flook Tunes
Crank it up!!
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I am a big fan of these tunes as well. Faves include Ramidh Ceili, Mouse in the Kitchen, The Beehive and the entire Ballybrolly Jigs Set (not all off Haven I know but why stop there!!). I think the key with these tunes (and a lot of the newer compositions being recorded by similar bands) is to use them sparsely and carefully within a session context. Although they are great, bombarding a session with set after set of new tunes is probably not going to make you many friends
# Posted on April 30th 2007 by late in the evening
Re: Flook Tunes
I love the tunes as well - who cares if you can play them in a session or not, they're just fun to learn - but what is it with Brian Finnegan and playing in keys that are completely impossible (on fiddle, anyway)? I mean, come on - the Asturian Way is a brilliant tune, but he plays it in friggin' F sharp mixolydian, just so that I'll take ten times longer that I should to learn it.
# Posted on April 30th 2007 by Joe CSS
Re: Flook Tunes
I imagine that you would tune your fiddle differently, learn it there, and then play it in a more normal key... similar to capoing a guitar to play in Bb but just playing in G. That's what I did for Road to Errogie, anyway, and it seemed to work.
And I make a point of learning one bog-standard tune for every crazy new one I learn. There's no need to lecture me. I've heard it.
# Posted on April 30th 2007 by Zazzaliss
Re: Flook Tunes
Um I sssssooooooo wasn't lecturing you Zazzaliss. Sorry if that's how it came accross. I'm very much a player from the new school end of the spectrum
. I was merely speaking from my experience. I'm not a tune nazi by any stretch of the imagination and apologise again if i came accross as trying to lecture you or curb your enthusiasm.
p.s. I think the recent s'**t fights carried out on this board have made everyone hyper defensive maybe??
# Posted on April 30th 2007 by late in the evening
Re: Flook Tunes
I agree with late in the evening- I just read the big one and it made me feel really weird..... Glad I wasn't involved actually.
Anyhoo, back tae this; Brian plays a lot of whistle Joe C S S so things come out in strange keys, especially on the A and F whistles. He also has some Indian flutes that come in pretty odd keys.
# Posted on April 30th 2007 by sneetch
Re: Flook Tunes
Hahaha late in the evening now all the youngsters think you're a stick-in-the-mud. Oh are you going to get a ribbing at Kelly's this week.
# Posted on April 30th 2007 by Dr. Dow